MIAMI — Sports used to be easy. Remember? It was where we escaped to get away from real life for a bit. Those of us who wrote about sports for a living used to be made fun by journalist colleagues who said (always with a smirk, but perhaps with envy) that we worked in the “toy department.”
But the playground got dirty. Complicated. Real life butted in, and being a fan will never be quite the same.
Oh, sports can still be simple enough, if you work at it. If you have blinders on to just the field. Then, it can still be about whether the Miami Heat really have a shot at Kevin Durant; if Tua Tagovailoa is ready to take the next big step (he’d better); or why the Marlins still aren’t spending enough on player payroll.
